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thelyblast Biol.|ˈθɛlɪ-, ˈθiːlɪblæst| [f. Gr. θῆλυς female + -blast.] The female element of a sexual cell. Hence thelyˈblastic a.
1877C. S. Minot in Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. XIX. 170 The sexual generation may be called genoblasts, the male arsenoblasts, the female thelyblasts (direction cells, nucleoli of Infusoria and spermatozoa). 1890Billings Nat. Med. Dict., Thelyblasts, term proposed by Minot to include mature ova and sperm-blastophores or seminal mother-cells. |